front 1 Alliteration | back 1 the repetition of the same or very similar constant sounds in words that are close together. |
front 2 Allusion | back 2 a reference to a statement, a person, a place of an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. |
front 3 Autobiography | back 3 the story of a real persons life, written or told by that person. |
front 4 Biography | back 4 the story of a real persons life, written or told by another person. |
front 5 Character | back 5 a person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work. |
front 6 Conflict | back 6 a struggle of clash between opposing characters or forces External-a struggle between a character and some outside force. internal- a struggle between opposing desires or emotions within a person. |
front 7 Connotation | back 7 the feelings and associations that have come to be attached to a word. denotation- dictionary definitions. |
front 8 Description | back 8 the kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using details that appeal to one or more of the senses: Sight, Smell, Taste, and Touch. |
front 9 Dialect | back 9 a way of speaking characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people. |
front 10 Dialogue | back 10 conversation between two or more characters. |
front 11 Fable | back 11 a very brief story in pose of verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed. |
front 12 Fantasy | back 12 imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature as we know them do not operate. |
front 13 Figure of speech | back 13 a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true. |
front 14 Flashback | back 14 a scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to a past event. |
front 15 Folk tale | back 15 a story with no know author, originally passed on from on generation to another by word of mouth. |
front 16 Foreshadowing | back 16 the use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot. |
front 17 Free verse | back 17 poetry that is "free" of regular meter and rhyme scheme. |
front 18 Imagery | back 18 language that appeals to the senses- sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. |
front 19 Irony | back 19 a contrast between what is expected and what really happens. |
front 20 Legend | back 20 a story, usually based on some historical facts, that has been handed down from one generation to the next. |
front 21 Limerick | back 21 a humorous five-line verse that has a regular meter and the rhyme scheme Abba. |
front 22 Main idea | back 22 the most important idea expressed in a piece of writing. |
front 23 Metaphor | back 23 a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes another thing. |
front 24 Mood | back 24 the overall emotion created by a work of literature. |
front 25 Nonfiction | back 25 prose writing that deals with real people, events, and places without changing any facts. |
front 26 Onomatopoeia | back 26 The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. |
front 27 Personification | back 27 A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
front 28 Plot | back 28 the series of related events that make up a story. |
front 29 Point of view | back 29 the vantage point from which a story is told. |
front 30 Prose | back 30 any writing that is not poetry. |
front 31 Rhyme | back 31 the repetition of accented vowel sounds all sounds following them. |
front 32 Rhythm | back 32 a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other osund patterns. |
front 33 Setting | back 33 the time and place of a story, a poem, or a play. |
front 34 Simile | back 34 a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than or resembles. |
front 35 Speaker | back 35 the voice talking to us in a peom. |
front 36 Stanza | back 36 in a poem, a group of lines that form a unit. |
front 37 Symbol | back 37 a person, place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning and stands for something beyond itself. |
front 38 Tall tale | back 38 an exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller", more and more far-fetched, the more it is told and retold. |
front 39 Theme | back 39 an idea about life revealed in a work of literature. |
front 40 Tone | back 40 the attitude a writer takes toward an audience, subject, or a character. |